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Military families across the country celebrated Thanksgiving this week with loved ones who were home after being deployed to Iraq for the last time. Scores of troops are coming home as the war winds down to an end next month, but for one Kentucky National Guardsman, his commitment to family is as strong as his desire to serve. Brenna Angel of member station WUKY in Lexington has his story.
For military families with loved ones serving in Iraq, this holiday season comes with varying degrees of relief and anxiety, as the nine-year war in Iraq winds down and deployments come to an end. Members of the Kentucky National Guard, deployed nearly six months ago, are beginning to come home from Iraq.
Brenna Angel, from member station WUKY, has the story of one soldier who has mixed emotions about his desire to serve and the toll it takes on his family.
BRENNA ANGEL, BYLINE: Earlier this month members of the Kentucky National Guard's 198th Military Police Battalion were welcomed home to Louisville after a brief tour in Iraq. They were part of a larger brigade of soldiers deployed this summer to carry out the drawdown.
LIEUTENANT COLONEL SHONTELLE ADAMS: For us, the mission was great. It was a great opportunity for the soldiers to do a once in a lifetime type mission that we, you know, we'll probably never ever be able to do again, in transitioning a base from the Department of Defense over to the Department of State.
ANGEL: Lieutenant Colonel Shontelle Adams is commander of the 198th. This last deployment to Iraq was only about two and a half months for Adams, who has served overseas three other times during his military career. Those missions typically lasted 12 to 15 months.
ADAMS: This is a volunteer army so a lot of times we know what we're getting into when you raise your right hand to join. But at the same token, many of us when you do that, you know, we were young and single, and didn't have kids and families. And it's - I'm not going to tell you it's easy. Whether you've got young kids or in my case, you know, I've got a 19, 16, and a 13-year-old, and it's a little rough.
ANGEL: Adams says technology makes it a lot easier for troops to communicate with loved ones. He didn't have Skype or Gmail 20 years ago while serving in the Persian Gulf War. But even video is no replacement for being able to physically give someone a hug, and Adams is glad to be home.
ADAMS: You know, in the back of your mind though, you're always thinking about your friends and other family who are still overseas, and wishing that they were here being able to enjoy and do the same things that you're doing. But it's just a good feeling to know that you're home.
All of my soldiers are, you know, that were with me are safe and sound back with their families. And it's, you know, not only is it a relief, but it's just a feeling that you just can't explain.
ANGEL: Lieutenant Colonel Shontelle Adams spent Thanksgiving like most Americans, eating turkey and pie. Hundreds of other Kentucky National Guardsmen are still in Iraq, and actually had their traditional dinner last Sunday. It was the final hot meal served at the Camp Liberty dining hall before shutting down.
For NPR News, I'm Brenna Angel.
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A bishop who can speak without shouting: Blase Cupich's reasonable voice on the mandate
As the media continues to follow NYC's "rock star" Archbishop Timothy Dolan [1] to Rome to get his red hat, Bishop Blase Cupich of Spokane, Washington is doing what really matters: Dialing back the rhetoric over the HHS mandate and offering some meaningful beginnings to dialogue about not only this issue but the relationship between religion and government in a pluralistic society. From his March 5 essay in America: [2]
"While this controversy has been painful for the nation and the church, it has raised awareness of the important contribution that religion makes to the common good. In an era that has seen not only the erosion of the free exercise of religion through laws, regulations and court decisions, as well as the attempts to marginalize the voices of believers, commentators from various perspectives and politicians of different persuasions have had to grapple with the role of religion in society. It would be a mistake to let the next news cycle topic distract us from unpacking further this important issue, an issue which merited the first place in our U. S. Constitution."
Cupich manages to express his concerns with the administration's policy while being respectful to the president and presuming his good faith. No one could accuse Cupich of being a lackey for the GOP or having any personal animus for the president.
Unfortunately, it seems the "front line" bishops on this issue--Dolan, William Lori of Bridgeport, Connecticut, along with lay staffers Anthony Picarello (general counsel) [3] and Richard Doerflinger of the bishops' pro-life office [4]--seem intent on nothing less than the complete repeal of the mandate, which simply is not going to happen.
Jesus says in the gospel of Luke: "What king, going out to wage war against another king, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to oppose the one who comes against him with twenty thousand? If he cannot, then, while the other is still far away, he sends a delegation and asks for the terms of peace."
Neither the law nor politics are on the bishops' side here; courts have already upheld state mandates, and a law introducing a religious exemption for any religious reason simply will not get out of Congress, much less avoid a veto. Even the current court challenges may backfire, with the Supreme Court confirming rather than overturning the mandate, further privatizing religious belief. The longer this goes, the more extreme the bishops sound, and the more they have to lose.
Cupich's call for a wider dialogue is both reasonable and necessary. But if the bishops' continue as Anthony Picarello said they would yesterday--"The bishops have no choice. They just have no choice. They're not going to relent on this. They can't relent. They have no choice."--I'm afraid they will lose, and not just this fight.


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When I first arrived on Avatar Wiki in November 2008, the initial treatment of my views was not enthusiastic. I had suggested that the Aang article be shortened into something readable, preferably in my mind by moving Aang's biographical history to separate articles – a strategy that we have since taken up. But at the time, the establishment of the wiki were dismissive of the opinion I had taken and asked what was wrong with me.
There was nothing wrong with me. They later recognised that as well, and a few short months later I was as respected a contributor as any. (I hold respectability in much higher regard than any position of adminship.) But I recognised the dangers exhibited in that initial attitude, and as a result, I have always sought to protect the ability of any user on this wiki to express their views. Partly as a result of my own request for adminship, an experience which I'm still not comfortable with, I wrote our original rules on nominating and voting on new admins, breaking with a past where admins chose new admins. I pushed for the decision-making process on this wiki to be a community responsibility rather than an admin one. I argued that the suppression of any shipping on the wiki was unwarranted and began our Shipping article.
This wiki enthusiastically held the principle of all editors being equally entitled to a point of view, only considered by others intellectually rather than dogmatically or emotionally, for a long time. But I'm increasingly concerned. I'm writing this blog post because I believe that we as a community increasingly preach one thing but practise another. We talk down to anonymous contributors and new users and then lecture them about civility. We aggressively attack views (shipping in particular comes to mind) and then feign outrage when our own consensus opinions are challenged. We throw around sharp negativity when there is a well-written fanon that happens to disagree with our view of the series and then dismiss similar behaviour against fanons favoured by our establishment. When someone in the community finally told me that they now feared posting Avatar-related material because of the potential reaction, I was forced into action.
I'm not here to attack anyone in particular. We're all equally guilty. I don't claim to be some kind of saint. And I certainly am not saying that we can't disagree with minority viewpoints and write extensive essays in favour of our own point of view. But what's clear to me is that we show a lack of respect for viewpoints we don't like, and consequently, we are increasingly intellectually stale and just not a pleasant place for Avatar fans.
So what cures do I have up my sleeve? There are three of them, and they are dead simple. I'll break them down:
- Don't say anything that you wouldn't say to their face.
- If you're not sure whether what you're saying will be seen as offensive or dismissive, it's better to fix it until you're sure it will be inoffensive before posting. People assume that on the Internet, it's safe to say things they would never say out on the street "in the real world". The problem is that the Internet is part of the real world – real people are reading what you say. (I know I've said these exact same words before on Community Central. It's applicable here too, so deal with it.)
- Don't take anything too seriously.
- So what if someone doesn't like Kataang or Tokka? Just ask yourself if you'd be prepared to hold a gun to someone who doesn't agree with your shipping. That's right – you wouldn't be – so there's no need to feel that you're under existential threat, and thus there's also no need for all the invective.
- Do consider all opinions to be legitimate as far as possible.
- Very few things about Avatar are as absolute as the fact that the sun rises from the east every morning. Katara could be intensely annoying for some people. Iroh could be not everything he's cracked up to be. So when disagreeing with these opinions, try to consider it as an analytical debate rather than a chance to crusade against your assumed Avatar infidels.
If we can keep these principles in mind, this wiki will be much more successful as a centre for civilised discussion and diverse views. And to reinforce a new tolerance on Avatar Wiki, I'm announcing that death and grievous injury notwithstanding, there will be an issue of The Ba Sing Se Times this weekend, and it will be themed. You guessed it – the theme is "stuff you, this is what I think". Aside from the usual suspect columns, I'm asking for columns detailing a point of view you think is pretty unique. I won't be satisfied that we've cleared up this problem until this BSST issue is the longest damn newsletter this wiki has ever written. So start typing.
Nominate or vote for new featured blog posts here.


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Rindge search for snowmobile rider called off, to be resumed Friday
By MEGHAN PIERCE
Union Leader Correspondent
RINDGE -- The search for a missing snowmobile rider was called off at 6:30 p.m. Thursday night when officials surmised the rider had walked away from the snowmobile found stuck in Emerson Pond just hours earlier.
Rindge and Fish and Game officials plan to resume the search for the rider of the "greenish" Polaris Indy snowmobile Friday morning, Fire Chief Rickard Donovan at the fire station Thursday night.
But it is not believed the rider was in the water, he said. For that reason, Fish and Game decided against deploying drivers into the freezing pond Thursday night, he said.
"We'd like to know, not so much what happened, but make sure that the operator is safe," Donovan said. "Did they actually get out of the lake, which we believe they did."
Donovan said he was called around 4:10 p.m. on Thursday by Fish and Game officials, who had been searching the pond for about 45 minutes at that point.
The Fish and Game officials had spotted a set of skis from a snowmobile sticking out of the ice on Emerson Pond with no visible tracks leading to or from the area, Donovan said.
The Rindge Fire Department immediately notified southwestern New Hampshire mutual aid to dispatch Rindge Fire and Rescue to meet with Fish and Game and assist in the investigation.
Along with Rindge, Jaffrey Fire and Rescue, Jaffrey-Rindge Memorial Ambulance and the Swanzey, new Ipswich and Winchendon, Mass., dive teams responded.
The Winchester Fire Department brought its hovercraft, which was used in the search over the pond.
Officials also went door-to-door in the Red Gate Lane and Jay Drive neighborhoods which are on opposite sides of the pond.
Donovan said all snowmobiles and snowmobile riders living in those neighborhoods were accounted for. Because there are no reports of missing people or snowmobiles the officials decided to resume the search in the morning.
After chipping away at the snowmobile the registration, make and model of the submerged machine was identified. Fish and Game are still working to get the registration records to determine the owner, Donovan said.
During the search, frozen slushy footsteps were found leading away from the snowmobile, leading the rescue workers to deduce the snowmobile's rider walked away from it after it began to sink into the water.
Donovan said it appears the snowmobile began to sink sometime Thursday morning or the day before that, which coincides with reports from neighbors who said they heard or saw a snowmobile at those days.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call Rindge Police or NH Fish and Game.


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List of homes to be razed released
After a review of engineering studies and reports, Wapakoneta city administrators approved five buildings to be demolished this fall using Community Development Block (CDBG) money.
Mayor Rodney Metz released a 75-page report Thursday to the Wapakoneta Daily News detailing the buildings to be torn down including homes at 311 E. Auglaize St., 701 Wheeler Lane and 902 Bellefontaine St. The list also includes the residence at 202 E. Mechanic St., which was part of a civil lawsuit more than a decade ago, and the residence attached to an ice cream store at 901 Bellefontaine St.
"Basically, this is our only method to eliminate problem code violations, slum and blight and to ensure the future safety and welfare of residents in the city," Metz told the Wapakoneta Daily News. "We can take them (property owners) to court and they will be ordered to do something, many times we end up back in court so what else can we do.
"We can fine them and many don't have any money and they won't pay, so what else can do to eliminate slum and blight in the community," the mayor said.
Safety-Service Director Bill Rains said property owners could approach the city about use of the funds and the award was not income based.
The city received $35,700 for this year's demolition program.
Wapakoneta Engineering Department Supervisor Mary Ruck received requests to demolish buildings and members of her department surveyed the city for other properties which met the requirements of the program.
Metz said one of the first requirements is the residence or property must have code infractions and violations and the property owner must be willing to sign papers permitting the city to raze the structure. An historical survey also is conducted to ensure the property is not of some historical value.
He said abuse of the program is unlikely since it would take years of violations and possible court action.
The mayor also noted houses razed in the past and on the list this year may not be on property where the owner could build new to take advantage of the demolition because the lot is not large enough to conform with the building code and setbacks.
Metz and Safety-Service Director Bill Rains received a list from Ruck last week of possible properties for CDBG demolition this year. They reviewed the list and approved the five highest ranking structures.
The list does not include engineer's estimates at this time, so the total number of projects approved for demolition may be reduced because of a limit of funds.
Among those on the list includes the house at 311 E. Auglaize St., owned by Connie and Patrick Alstaetter, of Anna, and was the site of a Feb. 26, 2010 fire. A fire safety inspector deemed the house a "dangerous building."
The structure at 701 Wheeler Lane, owned by Janet and James Clark, violated the building code with notes that the foundation was settling, sill plates were rotted, siding was coming off and window sills rotted, according to a city report. The porch separated itself from the house, a floor joist was rotting and there were rodents in the structure.
A city report regarding the structure at 202 E. Mechanic St., owned by Penny and Gerard Debortoli, noted the foundation was deteriorating and falling out, a number of broken window panes and boarded windows, brick is cracked and pulling apart in four places, front porch is falling off the house, roof is bad and leaking and the exterior trim is rotted.
The city report regarding the structure at 902 Bellefontaine St., owned by Ann Bruns, of Lakeview, included a list of correspondences between Ruck and Bruns and a private professional structural engineer Mike Bow.
A report submitted by Bow to the Engineering Department found similar problems with the house including a foundation wall settling, block walls deteriorating and the framing of the front porch needs reconstructed as well as other problems. Bow re-inspected the structure and noted no work had been done.
The rear house, owned by Kelli and Tobias Lee, at the back of Max's Dairy Bar be demolished. Ruck's report noted the foundation walls of the structure are deteriorating and settling, sewer line is broke, first floor system is falling into the basement, retaining wall in basement fell down, no operating furnace in the structure and supports in the basement are holding up the foundation.
Metz said he was shocked at the condition of the house on the rear of the building because the homeowners had taken care of the outside to make it look presentable. The mayor explained the basement will have to be dug out and back-filled.
He said he would review the report with any resident who questioned the properties on the list.


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Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 10:01 pm
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whenever i do this i always have pencial mark from erasing and ersaing is there anyway to help me figure out how to play so that i am able to have not as many pencial marks this way it will be easier to see the # that i have put in
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> I always have pencil marks.
> Is there anyway to help me figure out how to play so that I
> am able to have not as many pencil marks.
For Easy and Medium puzzles, it should be possible in most cases
to solve the puzzle without pencil marks - although some Medium
puzzles have thwarted me without marks!
A lot of the Hard and Very Hard puzzles can be progressed a long
way using the Mandatory Pairs marks. By their nature, these are
added and removed during the solution process and there will
never be as many of them as the marks for candidate profiles
if the latter are fully completed. However, there are quite a few
puzzles where resort to candidate profiles reaches the solution
much quicker than relying upon just Mandatory Pairs.
It mus be remembered that Mandatory Pairs is just a reasonably
efficient method of recording "information" gleaned from the
puzzle in a way that enables it to be used later - whereas using
Candidate Profiles is akin to simulating the work of a computer
and recognising patterns that will reveal the solution.
The Mandatory Pairs method (M/P) falls short when the puzzle
is based on pairs/triples etc which span more than one 3x3
region. Recognising this I find that more time needs to be given
to "Sole Position for Digit" searches if the simpler M/P techniques
fail to uncover the solution.
The standard technique "Counting" will reveal what numbers are
missing from any line (row/col) or region. There are then two
useful techniques.
a) Sole Candidate: This applies when there is only one digit that
will fit into an empty cell. The method is to consider each empty
cell and use "counting" to determine which digits are eliminated
by being in rows or columns intersecting with that cell or in the
region that contains the cell. If it is possible to find EIGHT such
digits then the ninth MUST be the solution for that cell.
(Of course, there is also a useful variant whereby the technique
is applied to two cells in a line and the same two digits are found
to be the only candidates but this is "Hidden Pairs" - demonstrating
that Sole Candidate is but a simplified form of the Pair/Triple etc)
b) Sole Position: This technique considers each digit in turn and
looks at each empty cell in a line (of course one ignores digits
that have already been resolved within the line!) to determine
if it is possible to place the digit in each empty cell. If it is shewn
as possible in more than one cell one moves on to the next digit
to be considered but if only ONE cell in the line can contain the
digit under consideration then that cell is resolved. This can be
applied also a region in a similar way to a line.
Both these techniques are contained implicitly in the candidate
profile approach. The first occurs when there is only a single
candidate for a cell and the second when the profiles for a line
(or region!) contain a digit which appears only once. Of course
finding that involves a closer inspection than sole candidate!
With all of these techniques the REAL skill is based on
a) knowing which technique to use next
b) Selecting which line, region or digit to be the focus for the
next application of a technique.
One of the advantages of Mandatory Pairs is that it can 'root out'
a lot of the easier stuff and many of the "hidden pairs" in a far
more transparent manner than working through the candidate
profiles. This, in turn, reduces the number of occurrences with
which one is dealing in preparing the candidate profiles if it
becomes necessary to use the latter. Also some of the Candidate
techniques become redundant. For example the rule that "if the
only occurrences of a digit in a line are all in one region that digit
may be eliminated from the other two lines in the region" can be
difficult to spot. With M/P it becomes almost self-evident - certainly
obviating the need to scan profiles in the hope of spotting a pattern!
A similar situation arises with the rule about all occurrences of a
digit within a region being in a single row or column.
To return to the main question - pencil marks.
I never make "pencil" marks - as I always use a pen! However, if
I were to use a pen and eraser there would be definite advantages
in using Mandatory Pairs - the marks would be erased.
Two other tips:
1) When I have completed the puzzle as far as I can with M/P and
decide to progress to Candidate profiles, I change the colour of
my pen. This means that I have a simple "break-point" should I
make a mistake with the profiles. My experience is that mistakes
are MUCH more common with candidate profiles than with the
M/P part of the exercise. Applying a break point was a lesson
learned the hard way - although in most cases it is not necessary
to implement it!
2) With so many digits littering the page (and not using an eraser!)
I use the convention of circling the resolved digit (also written large
near to the centre of the cell) to distinguish it form the workings.
This may not be necessary if one is working in pencil and erasing
the digits and the alternative of using different colours for final
and working digits would involve frequent mistakes in which pen
to use.
I am aware that some commentators use the circling of numbers
to denote particular types of working - but I do not recall having
seen reference to this on THIS site. Those other people refer to
BIG numbers to distinguish the solution from the "tiny writing" as
one columnist referred to it in Spring 2005. My own view is that
"bigness" is not a adequately clear visual distinction - unless one
is a pedant for writing size, which I am not. However each to her
or his own when developing such conventions.
My personal convention is to put Candidate Profiles at the top left
of a cell and Mandatory Pair digits at bottom left - leaving the
bottom right for the "resolution sequence" number (this is just an
ascending sequential number incremented for each cell resolved
and which allows for tracking back). However, I am very prone to
errors with the these tracking numbers (more duplications than
omissions) as I pay heed to the resolutions rather than the next
number in the series and so the technique does not always prove
useful and does demand printing the LARGE version of the puzzles
as there is insufficient room for sequence numbers on the so-called
"medium" grids.
(PS: Why is "medium" the default for printing the grids? Only one
grid appears at a time and so have a smaller print does not save
paper. The default just means having to change it each time!!)
So, yes - there are ways to "manage" pencil marks.
One way is to get Sudoku San to print them with the grid - as
SamGJ has not yet acceded to the request to have a "sweep"
option included with the initial print facility in "Draw". As the
facility develops a solution in order to determine a grade for
each grid entered it MUST derive the initial profiles. All that
was requested was an option for them to be printed as
superscripts in a manner similar to the one used by Sudoku San.
Another way is to use Mandatory Pairs as the first resort if the
puzzle is clearly one not to be tacked in a "mark-less" way.
The "BIG" numbers could be distinguished by circles and key
points in the solution process could be marked by a change of
colour of the writing instrument used.
There are probably several more.
The challenge of Sudoku is to be creative!!!
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Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 8:57 am
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See also the discussion
I reserve erasure for correcting (immediately recognised) mistakes.
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Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 5:38 pm
Post subject: Re: pencial marks
coolio wrote:
whenever i do this i always have pencial mark from erasing and ersaing is there anyway to help me figure out how to play so that i am able to have not as many pencial marks this way it will be easier to see the # that i have put in
When I find a need for pencil marks, I use tiny dots to indicate a cell's candidates, according to this pattern:
1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9
E.g., candidates 1, 2, 6, 9 would be marked like this in the cell:
* *
When I've identified that a given number is constrained to one of two cells, I'll indicate that with a slightly heavier mark in those cells.
Then I need only erase tiny dots, and can enter a cell's number with a pen.
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Earlier this year, Sony Ericsson promised that it would bring substantial improvements to its performance within the Android platform. Sony Ericsson has been making devices with good potential, but sadly, the company has been lagging when it comes to software updates (which is what seems to bother most Sony Ericsson Android users). Sony Ericsson is throwing us some curve balls lately, proving that their commitment to the Android platform is legit. Not only are their phones better and even coming straight with Gingerbread, but Sony Ericsson also seems to be opening the doors to the developer world, which is sadly starting to become much less of a trend lately.
Last month, Sony Ericsson gave us official support for unlocking their devices' bootloaders. Today looks like an even brighter day, as they have posted a tutorial that shows us how to build a custom kernel and flash it to an Xperia device. Bad news is that Xperia X10 users will be left out, since this guide is actually specific to the new Xperia devices: the Xperia Play, Xperia Arc, and Xperia Neo.
Now that Sony Ericsson has put down its weapons and decided to cooperate with the developer world, the company decided to even bring some official support at the XDA-Developers site… Impressive. It looks like the future of Sony Ericsson will begin to look brighter. As manufacturers continue to lock their devices, the Xperia brand will start gaining a better reputation within the Android world.


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WISEdash is a data portal that uses "dashboards," or visual collections of graphs and tables, to provide multi-year education data about Wisconsin schools. Data on the portal are redacted and available by school, district, or State. Current and Certified data can be displayed for multiple years and it can be grouped and filtered by a variety of demographics including grade level, gender, race/ethnicity, economic status, disability, English proficiency, and migrant status. Data download files are also available. As a public reporting tool, WISEdash is used by districts, schools, parents, researchers, media, and other community members to view data published by DPI.
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Emma Watson was left shaken after an overzealous fan broke through security on the set of her new film Noah in a bid to hand her a letter, according to a U.K. report.
The British actress is currently working on the biblical epic with Russell Crowe in Long Island, New York, and was filming in a wooded area when she spotted the man.
Security guards and stunt artists working on the film then chased the intruder and restrained him until police arrived.
A source tells Britain's The Sun, "The man managed to slip on to the set with some visitors and then approached her... He took off into the woods and was chased by security and a couple of the tough stunt guys who also happen to be martial arts fighters.
"They caught up with him in the woods. Police were called and he was removed by security."
The publication reports the man was not arrested but was handed a warning about trespassing.


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Eddie's Fried Oysters
By Eddie's of Roland Park; Serves 2-3
Eddie's Fried Oysters
By Eddie's of Roland Park; Serves 2-3
- 1 pint jar of standard oysters
- 2 cups flour, divided into 1 cup each
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 1Tbsp Old Bay Seafood Seasoning
- 1 cup fine breadcrumbs, plain
- Canola, corn or peanut oil for frying (not olive oil)
Drain oysters and set aside. In a small bowl, combine 1 cup flour with Old Bay and breadcrumbs. To bread the oysters, first dust each oyster with plain flour, then dip in beaten egg, then roll in flour-breadcrumb mixture.
Press each oyster gently to flatten evenly. Heat oil in a frying pan, electric skillet or deep fryer to 325 degrees -350 degrees.
Quickly fry oysters in oil until golden and crispy, about 4 minutes on each side.
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On schools and spy cameras
First, you'll want to have a look at this article on Boing Boing. A brief excerpt:
According to the filings in Blake J Robbins v Lower Merion School District (PA) et al, the laptops issued to high-school students in the well-heeled Philly suburb have webcams that can be covertly activated by the schools' administrators, who have used this facility to spy on students and even their families. The issue came to light when the Robbins's child was disciplined for "improper behavior in his home" and the Vice Principal used a photo taken by the webcam as evidence.
Now, a brief note that I know you'll enjoy. You may remember our two cases involving online student speech, Layshock v Hermitage School District and JS v Blue Mountain School District, in which conflicting rulings were issued simultaneously on February 4 by two different Third Circuit panels. In the Layshock case, one panel ruled unanimously that a school could not discipline a student for online speech created outside of school. In JS, another panel ruled (in a 2-to-1 decision) pretty much the exact opposite. It's a bit baffling.
Now here's the good part: during arguments in the JS case, Judge D. Michael Fisher, who wrote the majority opinion, remarked that "it's not as if there's a fear that schools will begin monitoring student behavior in the home."
I wonder if Judge Fisher reads Boing Boing.
Edit, 2/19/10: By request, here is a link to the complaint in Robbins v Lower Merion School District, the case referenced in the Boing Boing article.
Chris in Philly
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Dickinson to host Storytime in the Park event
Combining the outdoors and storytime together, Dickinson Center Inc.'s (DCI) Children's Prevention Services is hosting their inaugural "Storytime in the Park," taking place Friday, Aug. 10 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.DCI Parents as Teachers (PAT) Educator Lynn Floravit has taken the activity a step further by turning it into the "I Spy a Spider" walking storytime event being held at Benzinger Park in St. Marys.The event is geared toward children ages 3-6, each of whom must be accompanied by an adult. It is based off on the book "The Very Busy Spider" by Eric Carle. A rain date has been set for the following week, Friday, Aug. 17, at the same time and location."I revamped a 'Storytime in the Park' type event and expanded it," Floravit. "I am thinking about expanding it to different parks next year depending on the program's funding. I really want to keep it as an ongoing event."Floravit explained the storytime walk consists of eight stations each featuring a different craft project or activity. These activities are spider toss, similar to ring toss; marble paint, where children dip marbles into white paint and roll them around on black paper to simulate a spider's web; spider headbands; a paper plate on which children use black yarn to create a web with a spider on it; a lacing web activity; a make-your-own puzzle activity; a spider find activity where children pick up spiders with tweezers; and a create a spider out of Play-Doh.Each station will be manned by DCI and park staff. Registration for the event will be held at the top entrance to the park in the parking lot.Children who complete all eight events by having their card stamped at each station will receive a complimentary book from the Parents as Teachers and the Literacy Express.Between stations, children can participate in an "I Spy a Spider" game as they attempt to locate eight different types of spiders created by Floravit. After all eight spiders are located, each child is entered to win an outdoor fun gift basket, with one winner chosen at the conclusion of the event.


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Makeover in Wellesley
A gambrel roof and small porch spruce up the front. While the house has expanded to a generous 3,500 square feet — roughly 1,000 square feet was added during the renovation — its beautified facade remains relatively modest.
BEFORE: Gone is the old white aluminum siding, replaced with shingles. New, subtle details have classic appeal. "Since it was a smaller house, we were able to add copper gutters, and the chimney was refaced with stone," says Medfield-based architect David Sharff, who embraced the home's original asymmetrical nature, including using two different garage doors and various rooflines. A new front porch is defined by graceful columns.
A new family room was carved out of garage space.
Windows in the new family room and throughout the expanded house show off the view.
The kitchen has a Wolf range and granite on the peninsulas.
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We have talked about riding when it is cold (part 1, part 2, part 3), an activity which is not as much fun as riding during the summer to say the least. But with the right clothing (heated jackets, gloves, etc) and equipment (heated grips, saddles) you can ride even when it is freezing.
But if you have ever been in Europe, even in the summer, you will have with no doubt noticed that many motorcycles and scooters have something over their ride; it is an apron.
Many riders over there buy an apron that gets attached to the handlebar or a central attach point, and then the apron stretches all the way over the rider's legs and even chest.
Several aprons even extend over the handlebars covering the rider's arms. Usually the aprons are leather or thick plastic and you will not be surprised to see the inside made out of fur or wool.
The apron keeps the rider not only warm but also dry. Which is why you also see aprons used during the summer months; the rider wants to be kept dry. It is quite often the couriers / express delivery riders who use aprons, but nowadays business folks who use their two wheels to commute. Remember that in most European countries, people keep riding all year long, and often have their motorcycle as only mode of transportation. So it is a necessity.
Motorcycle taxi almost all have them now. These taxis transport their passengers all year long, so they need to keep them warm, toasty and happy.
It is an interesting way of keeping warm and dry, even in the winter that does not seem to have caught on in the USA. Maybe one day?


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WALTHAM, Mass. — Boston Celtics point guard Rajon Rondo spoke to the NBA on Thursday as the league investigates whether his role in a scuffle against the Brooklyn Nets will warrant a suspension.
Rondo told reporters after practice on Thursday: "I'm not a dirty player."
Rondo was ejected from the loss to Brooklyn after retaliating for a hard foul against Kevin Garnett with a two-handed shove on Nets forward Kris Humphries. A skirmish followed, and Rondo was kicked out of the game, along with Humphries and Brooklyn forward Gerald Wallace.
Rondo was suspended twice last season for losing his temper against the referees.
Coach Doc Rivers says he wants his players to show their toughness in more productive ways, like scoring and rebounding.


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By Richard Littlemore • Tuesday, May 25, 2010 - 16:42
John Abraham's Critique Devastates the Florid Lord's Denier Diatribe
Christopher Monckton, the self-celebrating Third Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, toured Canada and the U.S. last year calling the world's best climate scientists and activists "liars" for setting out their concerns about the dangers of climate change. In his presentations and his PowerPoints, Monckton was graceless and taunting in tone, making fun of Al Gore's accent along with his science. The record now shows that Monckton was also wrong - and frankly, wrong is such a way that he himself must be found to be either a flagrant and shameless liar or the most incompetent compiler of information since church scholars gathered to argue for the flatness of the earth.
The new critique was assembled by John P. Abraham, an engineering professor at St. Thomas University in St. Paul Minnesota. A diligent - even painstaking - researcher, Abraham is also unreservedly respectful in his own presentation, giving Monckton the benefit of every doubt.
The facts, however, are less accommodating. As Prof. Abraham demonstrates time and again, Monckton has consistently misinterpreted, misrepresented or flat-out lied about his "evidence" arguing against the theory of human-induced global warming. He has mangled references, misrepresented findings, cobbled together unattributed graphs and staked his case to critically compromised scholars.
Monckton has already revealed himself as someone whose capacity to be antisocial goes well beyond mere rudeness. This new presentation should be required viewing for anyone who regards him as even vaguely credible on climate science. Take the time: you will find he is anything but.
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Lord Monckton and the Friends of Science
Lord Monckton spoke in Calgary last year, invited by the Friends of Science (FoS). FoS had their annual dinner last week, where they handed out their latest denial statement. We have analysed its content similar to John P. Abraham, who analysed Moncktons content: http://bit.ly/dvVPXM
My bet is damn lies.
What a great destruction by Abraham. Very thorough and the best I've seen so far. I'm sure he can expect some sort of official complaint from Monkton in the near future. Thanks for posting.
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the discount Viscount
Professor Abraham's critique is far too generous. Monckton does precisely what he accuses Al Gore of doing: deliberate lying with a consistent agenda. His distortions and manipulations are not random or even simply biased and foolish. He is in full command of his deceptions. For example, first he mis-uses David Hathaway's 2004 plot of sunspot activity to falsely claim support for his assertion that global warming is caused by increasing sunspot activity, THEN, he draws three equal and parallel trend lines on the IPCC's world temperature chart and pretends that all three warming phases are exactly parallel, negating any sign of intensifying (anthropogenic) warming. These trend lines are entirely false. When the true linear regressions for his identified 'warming phases' are plotted they show intensity increasing by 70%, and duration by 100%, between the 186Os and the late 20th Century. The combined effect means that total warming increases by 340%. The parallel with accelerating CO2 rise is stark, but again, Monckton puts up a slide showing a small fragment of the Mauna Loa CO2 record from the late 20th Century, and announces that this record is LINEAR not rising. Once again, he emphasizes his point that there is no sign of the 'intensification' claimed by the 'UN' (Monckton's pejorative synonym for the IPCC.)Thus Monckton tricks his unsuspecting audience into believing that he has debunked the AGW 'myth'.
But it is when he gets into the area of vicious anti-UN propaganda that he becomes most dangerous. He asserts to his now bemused and uncritical audience, that he alone stands against the onslaught of the juggernaut of world domination by the 'communistic' greens from the old East Germany who have infiltrated the UN, and whose monstrous agenda is worse than that of George Bush's "Axis of Evil". He suggests, for example that it is the Greens who have starved the third world by demanding the conversion of corn syrup into ethanol to fuel their 'giant SUVs'. He states quite falsely that the UN banned the use of DDT, deliberately allowing millions to die from malaria in order to satisfy green demands for ecological genocide.
At the same time accuses the greens of scaremongering about climate change in order to promote the sale of their books, renewable energy systems, etc, like any good capitalist would do.
If he was just being dismissed as a ridiculous crackpot he wouldn't matter, but he is currently one of the principal advisors to the Republican Party. Representatives in the government of the most powerful and influential nation on Earth are voting on his advice!


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Two brush fires extinguished on Niagara Glen hiking trail
NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. – Two large brush fires were put out in the Pebbly Beach area of the Niagara Glen hiking trail by members of the Niagara Park Police high-angle river team late Monday afternoon along the 3000 block of the Niagara Parkway.
High-angle team members hiked into the glen to ensure hikers were all safe and put out a small fire near the north entrance to the glen trail system and a larger fire farther north along the red trail system known as Pebbly Beach.
The Niagara Falls, Ont., Fire Department helped in extinguishing the larger of the two brush fires. The causes of both fires remains under investigation.
Niagara Parks Police are asking that anyone with information contact police at (905) 356-1338 or Crime Stoppers Niagara at (800) 222-8477.


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LU joins in launch of 'Grad TX' degree completion program
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) announced today the launch of "Grad TX" (pronounced "Grad Texas"), a program designed to help adults return to college and finish their bachelor's degrees. Offered by eight Texas universities, including Lamar University, Grad TX targets the more than 40,000 adults in Texas who "stopped out" of college with 90 or more credit hours, but have not finished the 120 credit hour requirement to receive a bachelor's degree.
The program's website www.GradTX.org features an online transfer tool that allows returning students to enter completed coursework and preview how their credits would count toward a bachelor's degree at a participating university. The website also connects returning students to counselors at each university who specialize in meeting the unique needs of returning students, such as determining how work experience could count toward a bachelor's degree and helping returning students graduate faster. Grad TX includes information about paying for college and financial aid, as well as a section addressing the needs of Veterans.
"The THECB, working closely with our state colleges and universities, is focused on significantly increasing the number of college graduates," said Commissioner of Higher Education Raymund Paredes. "Encouraging and assisting our adult population to get back on track for a college degree is critical for Texas to become a national leader and global competitor."
In addition to better preparing people for their career choices, a college degree leads to greater financial independence. According to a recent study by the Center on Education and the Workforce, the United States can reverse the growth of income inequality by increasing the number of college graduates. In 2010, the average weekly wage for workers without a college degree was $712. Workers with a bachelor's degree earned an average of $1,038.
THECB selected eight Texas universities to be part of the launch of this new program that offers specialized programs with online, compressed, and regular course offerings for returning students. The eight universities are:
• Lamar University
• Midwestern State University
• Texas A&M University Commerce
• Texas Tech University
• University of Houston-Downtown
• University of Houston-Clear Lake
• University of North Texas System
• University of Texas at Brownsville
The Grad TX website features stories of adult students at the universities in the program.
Vicki Marshall, who received her BAAS from Lamar University in December 2010, was grateful to have the opportunity to apply her past learning experiences to her bachelor's degree. With 32 years experience as a paralegal, Marshall praised her professors as "dedicated to helping each individual reach his or her highest potential. They led us through the process of building a professional portfolio that required intense reflection on past learning experiences."
Teneka Duke, who received her BAAS in Business Administration from Texas A&M Commerce explains in her story, "When I had 21 hours left, I went to see an advisor who told me about the BAAS program. It was a perfect fit for me. I was able to apply my work experience and it enabled me to finish my degree in two semesters instead of two more years at the pace I was going."
Hilda Flores, a graduate of UT Brownsville with a BAAS in Applied Business Technology, applauds her program in her story, "I didn't have to start way from the beginning. I was able to build on what I already had [the associate's degree] so that I was able to go back to get my BAAS… and now I'm a program coordinator. I couldn't have gotten that position without my bachelor's degree."
"There are more than three million Texas residents like Ms. Duke and Ms. Flores who have partial college credit, but not a college degree," explains Van Davis, THECB director of special projects. "Grad TX puts a bachelor's degree within reach for many Texans."
Grad TX is part of the Generation TX movement to get all Texas students on the path to success in college and their careers. Grad TX specifically focuses on returning adult students who want to advance their career by earning a bachelor's degree. Grad TX is a project of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) with initial funding provided through a federal College Access Challenge Grant.
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Academic Spotlight
Tea Course Steeps Bowdoin Students in Historical Research
Story posted November 18, 2009
They have heated water in a kettle over a charcoal brazier. They have ground powdered tea from compressed tea cakes in the way of 8th century Chinese tea master Lu Yu.
Today, students in Lawrence Zhang's first year seminar, The History of Tea in East Asia, are lining up for a comparative sips of three teas, using brewing and tasting techniques employed by contemporary tea merchants.
"Wow, bitter!" says Gus Vergara '13, shaking his head after downing a small cup of the concentrated liquid.
"I didn't say it would taste good," says Zhang, a history instructor. He smiles broadly and offers another cup.
Students in the popular history course are getting more than just a spot of tea. The unique curriculum incorporates wide spans of world history. There are centuries of geopolitics to consider as tea commodification spreads from East to West. Transportation and trade routes evolve, production methods change, and access to tea reflects profound societal shifts. There are teahouses and drawing rooms, elaborate and minimalist ceremonies, and no end of teacup designs across cultures and centuries.
Almost without knowing it these first-year students are also being steeped in methods of academic research, writing, analysis and presentation.
"This is a methods class and tea is just the medium," observes Zhang. "But when you reconstruct the process of how do you brew this, students get interested. That I think is very valuable too."
Students are exploring a range of academic writing and primary texts. Recently, Zhang introduced a selection of letters from Scottish tea trader William Melrose, who spent a decade in China in the 19th century.
"We read his letters to his family talking about the tea trade," says Zhang. "The students came up with interesting observations about his traits and attitudes over the course of the year in which these were written. I think it's important for them to be able to read primary texts where what you are learning about isn't the explicit thing. How do you make some conclusions when there aren't obvious points and arguments?"
The final research project will mirror the object-history approach of the course. Zhang has asked students to develop research papers on subjects relating to tea. "One student is writing about the Suez Canal and how it facilitated trade from East to West," says Zhang. "Japanese tea gardens are another potential. Clipper ships. They have to take an angle and narrow it down."
Today, however, the class is only being asked to narrow down the distinctive qualities of each tea they taste.
"What do you think?" asks Zhang. "Keep in mind, this is black tea. It's not something that is completely foreign to you. But when you make it so strong like this, it's different. It smells good. Smell the leaves. Smell everything."
"The middle one is actually good," says one student. "Mmmmm," she adds. "And it smells like barn. I like that."
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My tsp is up just over 27% this year. Is everyone having such an amazing year. What a come back from a few years ago
Can you remove my thread from the website? I still want to be a member etc, but i don't want a thread anymore.
I'm lost and confused (normal) been with I_T for a year on month to month payment went to annual in December, now I'm OUT? Don't know who contact, your name is a MOD so you get first note????
OK. I still would like to know which BIG 4 he is referring to? Is it Countryboy? I'll sned him a message if you remeber his name.
I think it was cowboy or countryboy that posted it and I am very curious to find out what he was talking about. I remember him saying one time that he had essentially been banned from this site or something like that, which makes it even more intriguing.
Who are the big 4 that run the country?
I"m a total noob and have a stupid noob question. I would like to change my username. How can I do this? Who would I talk to about it?
Is there REALLY a town named, Boiled Peanut?
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Giving a little TLC
- $1.99
- Published By: eXtasy Books
- Author: Jackie Nacht
- Page: 57
- Word Count: 11955
- Publication Date: October 30, 2013
- Series: Holiday Jobs That Don't Suck #9
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- Categories: Contemporary, Erotic Romance, Gay, GLBT, Holiday
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Cancelled flight, car breakdown and Black Friday—Quinn has a Thanksgiving that is one example of Murphy's Law after another, but then, there's the handsome twin Mitch…
Quinn has the worst luck. His flight home for Thanksgiving is cancelled due to the weather, and now, an unexpected invite has him spending the holiday with his frat brother Sawyer and his sexy twin brother Mitch. Between a car breakdown, a family member who is a militant shopper and preparing the holiday meal, somehow Mitch and Quinn find themselves having a romantic fling. The only problem is: hearts begin to get involved? And once they get back to campus, can the two somehow become more?
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history lesson
DayBird - April 9th
1626 – Sir Francis Bacon, English philosopher, statesman, and essayist, dies poor and in disgrace. His debts amounted to more than £23,000, an equivalent to over 6 million dollars at today's prices.
1865 - At Appomattox, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders his 28,000 troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending the American Civil War.
1881 - After a one-day trial, Billy the Kid is found guilty of murdering the Lincoln County, New Mexico, sheriff and is sentenced to hang. On April 28, Billy managed to escape, just like in the movie. While one of the jail's two guards was busy buying dinner for a group of prisoners, Billy asked the remaining guard to take him to the jail outhouse. He shot the guard, with a smuggled gun and escaped. Garrett, who was also a criminal with a badge, immediately formed a posse and set off to recapture the outlaw. On July 14, Garrett shot his friend, Billy, in the back.
1926 – Hugh Hefner, American entrepreneur and publisher is born for porn.
1939 – Marian Anderson sings at the Lincoln Memorial, after being denied the right to sing at the Daughters of the American Revolution's Constitution Hall, because of her race. Their refusal placed Anderson into a national spotlight, with the backing of President Roosevelt and wife, Anderson performed a critically acclaimed open-air concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, to a crowd of more than 75,000 people.
1942 - U.S. surrenders in Bataan. Major General Edward P. King Jr. surrenders at Bataan, Philippines and 78,000 troops, the largest contingent of U.S. soldiers ever to surrender, are taken captive by the Japanese. The prisoners were led 55 miles from Mariveles to San Fernando, on what became known as the "Bataan Death March." At least 600 Americans and 5,000 Filipinos died because of the extreme brutality of their captors, who starved, beat, and kicked them on the way; those who became too weak to walk were bayoneted. Those who survived were taken by rail from San Fernando to POW camps, where another 16,000 Filipinos and at least 1,000 Americans died from disease, mistreatment, and starvation.
New Mexico represent! There was a huge New Mexico contingency. I recall one gentlemen, who had been part of the Death March, he had all his fingers cut off. He would sit in the back of the car and drink his scotch from a tumbler. I remember driving with him to Civic Auditorium to see Ricky Romero and Cyclon Negro, and of course, the Funk Bros.
1959 – Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect passes.
1959 - NASA announced the selection of America's first seven astronauts: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Donald Slayton.
2005 - Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles wed. Charles met his second wife, then Camilla Shand, at a polo match in 1970. They got it on. She married army officer Andrew Parker Bowles in 1973, she remained very friendly with the Prince Charles, even after his 1981 fairy tale wedding to Diana. Camilla and Andrew Parker Bowles divorced in 1995, and Charles followed suit. Then they did what they shoulda done in the beginning, and married each other.Though she technically became the Princess of Wales with the marriage, Parker Bowles has announced her preference for the title Duchess of Cornwall, in deference to the beloved late princess.


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New Conference Offers Strategies for Dealing with Stepped-Up IRS Scrutiny
Recent government statistics show that the Internal Revenue Service has increased its scrutiny of tax returns and tax professionals, particularly where small business owners or high-wealth individuals are concerned.
One IRS priority is to ferret out undeclared interests in foreign financial accounts and assets, which can lead to civil or criminal penalties for taxpayers—not to mention sanctions for practitioners who either fail to report these matters fully or are negligently ignorant of their existence.
The bottom line: Tax enforcement is evolving and CPAs and finance professionals must be prepared for a new generation of enforcement tools and techniques.
To help meet that goal, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants is sponsoring a new event this spring, AICPA Conference on Tax Controversy, which will offer strategies for practitioners whose clients face questions or challenges from the IRS.
Keynote speakers include Faris Fink, Commissioner, IRS Small Business and Self-employed Division, and Karen Hawkins, Director, IRS Office of Professional Responsibility.
The May 2-4 conference will be held at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, in conjunction with the AICPA's popular Small Business Practitioners Tax Conference. A single registration entitles attendees to take part in sessions of either conference.
Tax controversy participants will receive practical, "in the trenches" advice about effectively representing their clients before the IRS in an examination, collection or appeals matter.
Many sessions will provide practice toolkits of forms and documents for use in a tax practice.
Topics for the small business tax forum include the merits of going paperless for improving office workflow, tax resolution of identity theft issues, and multistate income tax matters for small business clients, among other subjects.


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KEDO work their magic on the SR400 to create not one, but two stunning special builds with the vintage styled 'Stallion' and tough, streetwise 'Bronco.'
The German parts company's first independent collaborations with Yamaha have resulted in two SR400 Yard Built creations that showcase some similarities but deliver two very different animals. The first, the 'Stallion' is dominated by sharp lines and rounded edges, hinting at its vintage genes.
The second, the 'Bronco' is a street tough machine designed for everyday urban use with a blended mix of vintage style and current technology topped off with some serious flair.
Both the 'Stallion' and the 'Bronco' get the KEDO aluminium rear swing-arm, KEDO custom handlebars, rear sets and the custom seat units. Custom front fenders, front lamp mask and side covers are all designed and made in-house. The 'Bronco' gets a tougher look than its brother the 'Stallion', and sits up on 18inch tracker tyres.
The rider of both creations gets to enjoy the action looking down on a Daytona 'Velona' speedo, analogue lookalike clock face and dash lights integrated into the front fork top yoke.
The 'Stallion's' many changes are wrapped up a beautiful turquoise blue metallic paint job and Stallion logo decals whilst the 'Bronco's' custom work is complemented by an eye catching candy gold paint job and Bronco decals.
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Baby boomers whose kids have pets instead of kids.
We are throwing a party for the grand-dogs.
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The adorable puppy your son or daughter just adopted in lieu of a human baby... in other words, as close to grandkids as you're going to get for now.
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Shrinking violet? Wallflower? Not likely. Your ride is as bold as your persona, and your helmet ought to be just as fabulous. The Airmada Sugar is gracefully emblazoned with delicate linework, gothic roses, and a rising sugar queen. Flawless and fierce, and ready to show the world how sweet you are.
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